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Word of the day: POLITICASTER - a much-disliked politician
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This colour - Pantone 448 C - is considered to be the ugliest in the world.
When the Australian Department of Health referred to it as "olive green", the Australian Olive Association complained that this denigrated olives.
(Image: علاء; CC BY-SA.)
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT
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Word of the Day: TAKIWATANGA (Maori) — autism, literally ‘his or her own time and space’.
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In order to avoid paying for meals, Salvador Dalí would doodle on the back of his cheques, knowing they would then never be cashed.
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"Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?" DOUGLAS ADAMS
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PHOBOPHOBIA is the fear of developing a phobia.
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In 2009, Irish police wrote more than 50 tickets to "Prawo Jazdy".
Prawo Jazdy is Polish for "driving licence".
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In 2018, Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia.
He lost the election to "none of the above".
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There are no fewer than seven mountains called "Mollie's Nipple" in Utah.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time, several times. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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During WWII, Max von Laue and James Franck’s Nobel prize medals were dissolved in acid and sat on a shelf in a Danish lab to hide them from the Nazis. Later the gold was recovered and the medals were recast.
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Space X’s satellite dishes are heated to prevent snow build up. American cats have discovered this and are curling up on the dishes to warm themselves on cold days, interrupting streaming services.
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Word of the Day: TECHNOSTALGIA — nostalgia for old technology.
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The ‘cheese’ in the phrase ‘big cheese’ may have nothing to do with food: it probably comes from the Persian word ‘cīz’ that means ‘thing’.
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"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Australia took home its first winter Olympic gold medal in 2002 when the Aussie athlete was the only one who didn't fall over.
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Minnesota has added new snowplows to their fleet. Joining Plowy McPlowface are No Mr. Ice Guy, Edward Blizzardhands, Ctrl Salt Delete, among others.
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Word of the day: TINTIDDLE - a witty retort, thought of too late; the English equivalent for l'esprit de l'escalier
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She's one of the greatest athletes of all time, and you've probably never heard of her.
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Brazil could not afford to send a team to the 1932 Olympics, so they sent the athletes on a ship full of coffee.
The athletes sold the coffee along the way to fund their journey.
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Word of the day: KAFFEEKLATSCH - literally "coffee chatter", an informal gathering where friends come and chat over cups of coffee
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"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Wild honeybees practice social distancing to avoid spreading parasitic mites.
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People have been making cheesecake in Greece for at least 4000 years.
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